From 1979 through 1995, 794 cases of invasive male breast cancer were diagnosed among New
Jersey men, with the highest annual number (67) diagnosed in 1994. The age-adjusted
incidence rate varied from 0.9 in 1984 to 1.6 in 1993 and 1994. Eighty-eight percent of
the cases were among white males and nine percent were among black males. One percent of
the total breast cancer cases diagnosed in New Jersey from 1979 through 1995 were in men.
(See Figures 14. and 15. and Table 17. in Appendix III.)